common interest to all similar associations ; and they 

 recommend to their successors a continuance of atten- 

 tion to tlie subject. 



In connection with the accounts of the Society, 

 is the security of its property, by the completion of 

 the Deed of Trust under which this is held. The 

 Council have great pleasure in informing the Members, 

 that the legal difficulties which have so long delayed 

 this veiy desirable object, difficulties renewed and aug- 

 mented by the changes among Proprietary Members, 

 which time has introduced, are now entirely sur- 

 mounted, and nothing remains but to obtain the signa- 

 tures of the present holders of Proprietary Shares. 

 The settling of this Deed has been a subject of labour 

 and anxiety, to some of the most active and zealous 

 among our former Officers; for its final accomplish- 

 ment, the Society is indebted to the able, zealous, and 

 disinterested services of John Hope Shaw, Esq. as 

 well as to T. W. Tottie, Esq. the agent for the 

 vendors of the land on which the Hall is built. It 

 would be a narrow and incorrect view of this event, 

 to imagine it interesting to the Proprietary Members 

 alone : not only do the shares of the Ordinary Members 

 derive security from the same Deed, but so long as its 

 preparation was delayed, the stability of the whole 

 Society was incomplete. 



